Credit: @CalebBonham
Legislative Democrats held a press conference today to announce 8 new gun control measures they are proposing, though they declined to actually release any of the bills in question. There are a number of terrible bills being proposed, but one in particular looks set to blow up in Democrats’ face based on existing federal law that stands in direct contradiction.
Per The Denver Post‘s Kurtis Lee:
Colorado Democrats said they will introduce bills that would hold makers and sellers of assault-style weapons legally liable for any harm gunmen inflicted with them in a news conference Tuesday in which they called for a long list of tough new gun-control laws.
…The call to hold makers and sellers of assault-style guns appears to be in conflict with a federal law passed by Congress in 2005, according to David Kopel, a University of Denver law professor and Second Amendment expert.
“The purpose of the (Protection of Lawful Commerce and Arms) act is to prevent firearms manufacturers and dealers from being held liable for crimes committed with their products,” Kopel said in a recent e-mail. “However, both manufacturers and dealers can still be held liable for damages resulting from defective products, breach of contract, criminal misconduct, and other actions for which they are directly responsible.”
The Dem’s liability law is quickly becoming known as “cash for trial lawyers” as that is the only group that stands to benefit from the legislation. As Senator Brophy quipped to reporters, trying to hold gun manufacturers liable for gun violence is like trying to hold Coors responsible for drunk drivers.
If the law were to pass it would almost certainly be challenged in court, and overturned as the federal law protecting gun manufacturers from liability supersedes it. How many Colorado taxpayer dollars are Democrats willing to risk to defend a law that won’t stand up to legal scrutiny?
Did the bill drafter even bother to perform a simple Google search before parceling out a big gift to trial lawyers?
Pam Mueller "TRY" your social engineering on someone else! Are you really that ignorant to think your trampling on constitutional rights will affect the murder rate? You like tell yourself and others who will listen to you that it is all about saving innocent lives. If you are so right than why is it that areas that have the strictest gun laws are also the places that have the highest murder rates per capita? Oh Ya, Didn't we already try your silly plan once and it was determined that it made no difference? And please tell me the last time a criminal, murdering psychopath obeyed the laws? You're all insane! BTW it's not about hunting deer, it's all about keeping people like you from stealing the rights of others so you can mold them into good little sheep to be ruled by the "smart people with their fancy degrees" who know best.. Arrogance is rampant in your world. IT’S ABOUT TYRANNY! > : oppressive power <every form of tyranny over the mind of man — Thomas Jefferson>; especially: oppressive power exerted by government <the tyranny of a police state> Here is a sample just for you… She felt lost in the bureaucratic tyrannies of the university system.
Plain treason…to talk about any gun control for We The People…
…including but not limited to the pResident.
Someone has to try to infringe on our rights? Wow.
And to say that nobody is taking our guns away is a farce. That is the end goal. It is stated repeatedly by anyone paying attention.
Solution simple replace them next election.
Give me a break. No one is taking your guns away. Nor has anyone said that. Just trying to get some control on assault weapons and high capacity magazines. Someone has to try.
Hey, a backdoor way to shut down gun manufacturers AND give their ambulance chaser constituency a new revenue stream! WIN, WIN!
It will be very interesting to see what other laws the Dems send to Hickenloopers desk to take away our right to self defense.
Precedent, law, and rights just don't matter to today's democrats.